Comments on: The Ron Paul Newsletters: Naming Nameshttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/
Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time.Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:49:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Andrew Taylorhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-49361
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:04:15 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-49361I’ve just stumbled across this. It appears that the heat is getting to Lew Rockwell, so he’s sending his surrogates out to defend him. And, not surprisingly, the man who won’t come clean about authoring the Ron Paul newsletters is (through his surrogates) demonstrating that he is ready to throw Paul under the bus:

“The burden of the newsletter content is on Ron Paul, the man whose name graces the covers, and shame on you scoundrel ‘libertarians’ for automatically drawing the assumption that Lew Rockwell must have, had to be, surely was involved in writing those passages that have you all so horrified. Yet you claim that this man, who has worked so hard – on his own time and dollar – to open peoples’ minds to the more radical aspects of freedom and free markets, is ‘destroying your movement,’ as if this is some juvenile brotherhood of badges, pin pricks, sworn statements, and membership cards.”

By the way, did anyone else not know that Rockwell was accused some time ago of having an affair with Cindy Sheehan? Google it if you want to read about it. I thought good paleos weren’t so morally lax, what with being “traditionalist Catholics” and all that.

You have now had three opportunities – 1996, 2001, and 2008 – to prove that you are a friend of Ron Paul and freedom, and you have failed to do so each time.

This week, for the third time, the puerile, racist, and completely un-Pauline comments that all informed people say you have caused to appear in Ron’s newsletters over the course of several years have become an issue in his campaign. This time the stakes are even higher than before. He is seeking nationwide office, the Republican nomination for President, and his campaign is attracting millions of supporters, not tens of thousands.

Three times you have failed to come forward and admit responsibility for and complicity in the scandals. You have allowed Ron to twist slowly in the wind. Because of your silence, Ron has been forced to issue repeated statements of denial, to answer repeated questions in multiple interviews, and to be embarrassed on national television. Your callous disregard for both Ron and his millions of supporters is unconscionable.

If you were Dr. Paul’s friend, or a friend of freedom, as you pretend to be, by now you would have stepped forward, assumed responsibility for those asinine and harmful comments, resigned from any connection to Ron or his campaign, and relieved Ron of the burden of having to repeatedly deny the charges of racism. But you have not done so, and so the scandal continues to detract from Ron’s message.

You know as well as I do that Ron does not have a racist bone in his body, yet those racist remarks went out under his name, not yours. Pretty clever. But now it’s time to man up, Lew. Admit your role, and exonerate Ron. You should have done it years ago.

Oh, cut the sanctimonious crap. Ron Paul’s supporters aren’t the ones asking for a complete explanation. They’re not concerned with this story; they’re concerned with the next money bomb on MLK Day, and with the primaries coming up in their own states.

If you want a more complete explanation, speak up for yourself.

]]>By: David. S.http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-49036
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:06:27 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-49036“Sociologist have long known that the difficulties one has to overcome is somehow related to the likelihood of success. Some have posited that it is even a good predictor of the measure of success. They call this phenomena, “adversity quotient.” The higher the quotient (the greater the adversity), the greater the likelihood of success.

Thus, when someone manages to overcome a great adversity, the odds of great success increase.

It looks like our good doctor’s adversity quotient may well have just gone up, substantially. The tide of public opinion would seem to be turning in his favor in regard to the horrendous accusations made against him by The New Republic’s Jamie Kirchick.

Even the talking heads in the mainstream media are starting to concede that Dr. Paul is not a racist:

“I gotta tell you Congressman, you and I have talked a lot over these last several months and when I saw these newsletters I didn’t know anything about them until I saw that article in The New Republic. I was pretty shocked because it certainly didn’t sound like the Ron Paul that I’ve come to know and our views have come to know all this time.” — Wolfe Blitzer, CNN, The Situation Room

At this point, it even seems possible that Dr. Paul’s support amongst minorities might increase as a result of this kerfuffle.

Thank you, Mr. Kerchick.”

]]>By: Rhyshttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48998
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:51:46 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48998Knutss, you’re nutz. He said he knew of the newsletters 10 years ago, he said he didn’t know their words. There’s a big difference and you’re trying to muddy the water. You all are if you think Paul is wrong.

He said “I don’t recognize those words, they’re not mine.” He didn’t say “I don’t recognize the newsletter or the controversy.”

I hope you people start thinking for your self. Otherwise, the machine is going to assymilate more and more American’s while the people with a voice and want to stop it… bitch about what our enemies say.

You’re allowing our enemies to define us. You’re no better than Bush. At least he never pretended to be smart. At least his friends know he doesn’t care about America. Yours don’t. You tell your friends you care, then dog on Ron Paul for something he didn’t do. That way, he can make no further in-roads, and we can all go line up to vote for Hilary or Huckabee. Go China!

Bush clones, all of ya.

]]>By: Hugh G. Knutsshttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48996
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:25:20 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48996Did anyone take a look at that last link in this post? The one right before “share and enjoy?”

These are all quotes from many different media outlets at the time, where Ron Paul DEFENDED his comments in these racist newsletters.

What this shows is, the press release that Ron Paul put out, denying any knowledge of these racist newsletters is completely false. As you can see in that link, he actually WAS aware of them, and defended their contents.

GWB was nailed unmercifully by liberals for a forged/phoney document that was proven to be typed on MS Word, and to this day, many still assert it was factually correct. Here, we have Ron Paul’s OWN WORDS defending these newsletters, in a great many news sources, and some are STILL willing to pretend he didn’t?

]]>By: C Bowenhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48993
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:13:49 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48993So you were for it, before you were against it?

Blood on your hands, indeed.

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

Since you didn’t donate any money to the Ron Paul campaign, did you donate any money to the families of those who lost loved ones in this war you supported?

]]>By: Doug Mataconishttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48987
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:05:04 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48987I’ve never denied that I initially supported the Iraq War, that support ended sometime around July 2003.

So did many libertarians.

Your assertion, though, that I somehow “have blood on my hands” is an absurd lie.

]]>By: C Bowenhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48984
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:56:32 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48984You supported the war, and now you are lying about it? You might want to scrub your amazon reviews then.Doug , in his own words
“I will admit that, in the beginning, I supported the War in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had demonstrated himself to be an enemy of freedom when he invaded Kuwait without provocation in 1990, he’d used chemical weapons against both Iranians and his own countrymen, and, at least as presented by the people who are supposed to know such things, it seemed pretty conclusive that in 2002-03, he was trying to develop WMD’s once again. “
]]>By: Doug Mataconishttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48979
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:35:36 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48979Bowen,

Doug supported the invasion of Iraq which means he has blood on his hands. Paleolibertarians need to distance themselves from these mass-murdering apologists, indeed.

That is a lie.

]]>By: C Bowenhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48977
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:31:46 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48977The only question of our day is how “pro-war libertarians” and their support for state sponsored mass murder are still considered in the realm of acceptable opinion in the larger media, let alone “libertarian” circles.
]]>By: Amyhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48969
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:01:03 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48969Have become associated with ideas like this or the nonsense like the 9-11 truthers?

This is not new, the Libertarian infighting as to which philosophy should best shape the party has long been the downfall of the Libertarian “movement”.

As for the truthers… perhaps its because the other two parties have turned their back on Americans that have questions about a very tragic event. Questioning their membership is at best a form of elitism, and worst, bigotry.

These racists papers should have been challenged years ago, not just by Paul, but by the same people who are exposing them now. They can claim the have, then why again 15 yrs later? Who’s pound of flesh do they want…. and why?

For the first time in history the libertarian concept is catching on, and guess what? This infighting may very well undo a whole lot progress.

]]>By: DenisLhttp://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48966
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:49:14 +0000http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/11/the-ron-paul-newsletters-naming-names/#comment-48966Paul lent his name to a small newsletter for a short time that he did not edit, while he was out of politics and concentrating on delivering babies. I look at it as running an unmoderated blog in the days before the internet. The writing style was not Ron Paul’s. In his newsletters since being back in Congress, he is clearly in charge and they are wonderful to read. Clearly Paul is the most vehement anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-individual, and pro-gay rights person in Congress. He ran as a Libertarian Presidential candidate for gosh sakes. The New Republic did not even contact Ron Paul to talk to him about their story and they did not seem to know that it had been discussed ad nauseum several times over the years and dismissed as not reflecting Ron Paul’s beliefs. The New Republic, if you will remember, compared Ross Perot to Hitler! Ron Paul is a good man being smeared for political reasons.